Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sebastian! On 17 July 2016 at 03:14, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > El 15/07/16 a las 07:37, Dave Crossland escribió: > > Alright! Back to this whole Sugar Network thing that I feel like I don't > totally understand :) I have some immediate practical qu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 July 2016 at 19:14, Sam Parkinson wrote: > Maybe we target a collaboration re-write for next release :P > If we want to go totally custom, zeromq is really fantastic and I used it to add real time collab to FontForge by appropriating the undo system. However I

Re: [ft-devel] GX news

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Wow, that's awesome! On 16 July 2016 at 12:50, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Support for GX in FreeType becomes better and better :-) > > Behdad has just fixed some bugs in the GX delta handling – now all > glyphs from the infamous `Zycon' font are displayed correctly! > > I've

[Sugar-devel] FreeDesktop integration UI discussion

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sebastian just edited the wiki about the amazing FreeDesktop integration work he's been doing: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Features/FreeDesktop_integration=next=98058 He added 2 ui questions: > How to choose .desktop files to show in Sugar Launcher. I think something similar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 09:04, Tony Anderson wrote: > The screenshot was archaeological - a feature since removed from Sugar. > Ah yes, I see, from 0.90 which is very old. > I have not used any formal social science methodology (and really don't > plan to - my time at the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 05:16, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Yesterday's Work > fixing up small errors in the glyph editor > adding a basic pen tool: now we can make a contour with lines > https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/pull/74 > Okay cool, I'll see about fixing the

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 08:43, Tony Anderson wrote: > A lot of questions. I believe Sebastian Silva would be your best source. > Sure! My email is in reply to his, and I expect he will answer these questions on this list when he has time? :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 08:33, Tony Anderson wrote: > I think we all hope someone will attempt to work with and support our > users. I have a lot of experience over many years working > with deployments, but would not suggest anything I have done is definitive. > I understand

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 15 July 2016 at 04:29, Tony Anderson wrote: > This proposal needs some details. > I agree > ASLO supported many functions including the developer hub, authentication, > and so on. A simple static site that is functionally equivalent is > ambiguous. > Yes. Since

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 15 July 2016 at 00:14, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > I am proposing a simple static site that hosts xo bundles, that is > > functionally equivalent to the php5 codebase. > > Aleksey had proposed this: > http://school-network.org/hub/?view=Catalog=activity=featured

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 08:22, Tony Anderson wrote: > Sugar is frozen to decisions made several years ago. I think that's because there is no UX lead who is able to show through user studies that changes are good. ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] Priority languages to translate Sugar

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On Jul 15, 2016 7:31 AM, "José Miguel García" wrote: > > Hola! > Estoy de acuerdo con Caryl de fortalecer Sugarizer. > Es importante avanzar en función de las disponibilidades de los despliegues, para poder fortalecer a Sugar > A modo de ejemplo, en Uruguay se están

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
I think user testing can resolve such ux disagreements. A setting to choose from both is not a wise design decision because there is still a question of which is default and how easy it is to set. Since Tony is advocating for a change, perhaps you could do a user test. Have you done one before?

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 July 2016 at 13:13, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > The build utilities for XO laptops hook into ASLO to download applications. > Cool! > Some sort of backward compatible API should be made for that. > Sure. Where is the API documented?

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 July 2016 at 14:22, Tony Anderson wrote: > The obvious question is why? What functionality do we add for our users by > rewriting everything in Python 3? > The functionality of being able to run the software, because the underlying Python 2 packages are going away.

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 14, 2016 12:26 PM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: > > The problem is ASLO, our primary interface and support for our user community. > > If we are going the github route, we need to set up a means for updated versions of Activities to be made into bundles and installed on

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 14, 2016 8:15 AM, "Sam Parkinson" <sam.parkins...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 14 July 2016 at 07:13, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkins...@gmail.com> w

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 July 2016 at 07:13, Sam Parkinson wrote: > What do you mean? ASLO is based on very old technology, which is going to > get broken. > > 10/10 would love to improve ASLO. I actually did an "ASLO2" effort a > while ago, although that failed for reasons that are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
art user testing :) > > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:35 PM Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ys...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:38 AM Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Yash! >>> >>> On 6 July 2016 at

[IAEP] Wiki Gardening, August 6/7?

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
In thread "[IAEP] Sugar Digest [2016-05-25]" on 25 May 2016 at 09:42, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 7. Dave Crossland lead a team of volunteers on a weekend wiki gardening > adventure. While there is still more work to be done, we managed to prune

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsettings Schema Error

2016-07-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 12, 2016 7:20 AM, "Ütkarsh Tiwari" wrote: > > Hi, > I had been struggling with this issues for 2 days and you solved it with just one mail! Thank you Mr. Cameron :) You have rescued me from lot of issues a lot of times. Yes, we are very lucky to have

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 11, 2016 8:26 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > > On Jul 11, 2016 3:48 PM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 11 July 2016 at 14:20, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 14:20, Sameer Verma wrote: > No minutes taken. Our usual note taker is out. so is the back up. > Plus, our meetings are more informal than most (although we do > document) and the process was more conversational. Okay cool, no worries :) > The good news is

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 14:20, Sameer Verma wrote: > No minutes taken. Our usual note taker is out. so is the back up. > Plus, our meetings are more informal than most (although we do > document) and the process was more conversational. Okay cool, no worries :) > The good news is

Re: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 14:20, Sameer Verma wrote: > No minutes taken. Our usual note taker is out. so is the back up. > Plus, our meetings are more informal than most (although we do > document) and the process was more conversational. Okay cool, no worries :) > The good news is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Blank is good too ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 11:55, Tony Anderson wrote: > Name this project. Entry is computerize, refers to the widget. > I was thinking of 'entry' like 'journal entry' - what are items in the journal called? However, since the dialog already says "Please provide a name for your

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 10:56, Martin Dengler <mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: > On 11 Jul 2016, at 15:44, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > On 11 July 2016 at 10:40, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: > >> I prefer 'Untitled' as it suppor

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 11:15, Tony Anderson wrote: > The alert requries the user to provide a title or to quit (not saving the > document). My suggestion is that the alert should ignore a click on save > until the user provides a title or selects to quit. Untitiled in this >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 10:40, Tony Anderson wrote: > I prefer 'Untitled' as it supports the intent of the alert - to request > the user to supply a title. I also prefer Untitled, although I'm curious to hear why "xxx Activity" would be better. I wonder that "untitled" often

Re: [IAEP] SOAS Page?

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks you Sean and Martin! :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[Sugar-devel] Add abstraction layer for WebKit1/2 apis?

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I want to call attention to this PR thread on the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 github repo: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/329 -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Britain to help 175,000 girls in world’s poorest countries get an education

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 July 2016 at 14:54, Sean DALY wrote: > > https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-to-help-175000-girls-in-worlds-poorest-countries-get-an-education > > The Department for International Development (DFID) will provide £100 > million through the Girls’ Education

Re: [Grassroots-l] [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 11:17, Aaron D Borden wrote: > Agenda > - Meet and greet > - Vision, mission, and goals > - Summit planning > - Project updates > Were any minutes taken? If not, I'm curious to hear more about the Vision/mission/goals discussion and if the statement was

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 11:17, Aaron D Borden wrote: > Agenda > - Meet and greet > - Vision, mission, and goals > - Summit planning > - Project updates > Were any minutes taken? If not, I'm curious to hear more about the Vision/mission/goals discussion and if the statement was

Re: [CREATE] Font Validator with rasterization (i.e. hinting) test out now!

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Great job Hin-Tak :) ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create

Re: [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 10, 2016 1:44 PM, "Tony Anderson" <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: > > Recently it has become the 'public' alternative to the SLOBs list. Sure, I dont see any trouble in this. What harm do you see? What alternative do you suggest? :) > > Tony > > > O

[IAEP] SOAS Page?

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Who is responsible for the text and illustrations on https://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ ? :) -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 July 2016 at 13:26, Tony Anderson wrote: > Where is our list regarding the educational goals of Sugar? > Threads regarding the educational goals of Sugar are not to do with software development technicalities so therefore happen on this list in addition to all other

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tony's comments on localization

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 July 2016 at 12:16, Nick Doiron wrote: > Your primary issue would be getting a Cherokee font (including recent > Unicode addition of lower-case letters) to work on the laptop. > Google Noto solves this :) ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Tony's comments on localization

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 July 2016 at 12:16, Nick Doiron wrote: > Your primary issue would be getting a Cherokee font (including recent > Unicode addition of lower-case letters) to work on the laptop. > Google Noto solves this :) ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 10, 2016 11:54 AM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: > > However, since the various flaps concerning the Oversight Board, it is very > hard to find a discussion in IAEP that has any connection to education. My understanding is that this list is for threads not to do with

Re: [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
ce to fill the lists with email. However, since the various flaps concerning the Oversight Board, it is very > hard to find a discussion in IAEP that has any connection to education. I am sure you also are getting multiple emails from Dave Crossland - often I get as many as four copies.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
ce to fill the lists with email. However, since the various flaps concerning the Oversight Board, it is very > hard to find a discussion in IAEP that has any connection to education. I am sure you also are getting multiple emails from Dave Crossland - often I get as many as four copies.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Release Sugar 0.109.0.2 unstable

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Thank you Sam this is great :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] North American native languages (was Re: #Documentation SL Funding Committe)

2016-07-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 9, 2016 1:30 PM, "Caryl Bigenho" wrote: > > I have contacted people from the Crow here in MT and Objibway in another state. You have to deal with the Tribal Councils and they are really to busy to deal with things like this. > > As I said before, to be successful in

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion to adopt the 2016 vision for Sugar Labs

2016-07-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On 9 July 2016 at 01:57, Laura Vargas wrote: > In the meanwhile, I'm working on the 100 grant and will be > needing a mission definition, so I guess what is published at the > Conservancy Web as SL's mission is what we currently have. I am under the impression that

[IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Fwd: Please Help Support OLPC

2016-07-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Interesting :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron D Borden Date: 9 July 2016 at 04:04 Subject: [OLPC-SF] Fwd: Please Help Support OLPC To: olpc...@lists.laptop.org Some activity from OLPC. They're running a fundraiser!

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 11:31, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > Will it be possible to join remotely? > I offer the suggestion that if someone is there with a laptop and wifi or an Android phone, they can open a Google Hangout on Air and post the l

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion to adopt the 2016 vision for Sugar Labs

2016-07-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Laura On Jul 8, 2016 7:50 PM, "Laura Vargas" wrote: > > FWIW Sugar Labs is described at http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/ as follows: > > Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and

Re: [IAEP] #Documentation SL Funding Committe

2016-07-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 July 2016 at 08:49, José Miguel García wrote: > Sin embargo, a través de la experiencia de Argentina en Conectar Igualdad, > donde se daba la posibilidad de que cada centro instalara su sistema. Wow, that's amazing!! :D I guess in the USA it is common to create

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 18:08, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > I suggest to leave the Bezier tool for now and focus on shipping an .xo > that allows users to draw fonts using only straight lines, so that Eli and > I can do user testing :) > I've ordered the issues in the 1st

Re: [IAEP] #Documentation SL Funding Committe

2016-07-07 Thread Dave Crossland
2016-07-07 7:45 GMT-04:00 José Miguel García : > Sostenemos, sin embargo, que si los dispositivos hubieran contado con > Windows, el SO más conocido, su uso habría sido para seguir haciendo más de > lo mismo. I think that is great :) However, it seems possible only

Re: [IAEP] #Documentation SL Funding Committe

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Caryl On 6 July 2016 at 20:12, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Actually, > (I am also grateful for Sameer and José Miguel's input, but unlike Adam and Tony who I mentioned, they are not participating here very much which is why I didn't mention them.) I understand that you

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash! On 6 July 2016 at 17:58, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Today's Work Report > Thanks for making a daily report :) > 1. adding a global configuration file- this will store the global settings > like the current working font, theme, font to be used for headings, etc. >

Re: [IAEP] #Documentation SL Funding Committe

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Thanks Caryl, this is all very informative and I'm glad you are here to explain this context :) On 6 July 2016 at 17:18, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Teacher training and "buy-in" is essential for Sugar/Sugarizer to succeed > no matter what platform, language, or country

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Aaron Will it be possible to join remotely? I'm keen on the vision/mission/goals discussions, and also about the XO-1 palette being delivered to OLPC-SF soon :) On 6 July 2016 at 11:17, Aaron D Borden wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our

Re: [Olpc-open] [IAEP] [OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF July meeting this Saturday

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Aaron Will it be possible to join remotely? I'm keen on the vision/mission/goals discussions, and also about the XO-1 palette being delivered to OLPC-SF soon :) On 6 July 2016 at 11:17, Aaron D Borden wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 05:32, Yash Agarwal wrote: > There were some issues with my Harddrive and I had to get it changed (it > wasn't a software issue) > Everything is working fine now and I'll be working again from today > Okay great! I guess the HD hardware failure caused

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] add liveusb-creator as sugar app to 0.108

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 08:16, Walter Bender wrote: > If we do it again this year!! Would you consider applying again? It seemed to be very successful so I hope so :) Looks like the announcement will be in October :) ___

[Sugar-devel] 2008 Sugar UX review slide deck + Journal Rethink

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Reading more about the Sugar UX history I found this PDF: http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Presentations/OLPC%20Country%20Meeting%20-%20Day%202%20-%20May%2021st,%202008/Refining%20Sugar.pdf Interesting reading! :) I see that the suggested changes to the Journal

Re: [IAEP] Which cheap 2016 Laptop should be our reference?

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22 June 2016 at 08:40, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > There are 2 obvious candidates to me, the new "olpc laptop" available from > olpc inc to USA resident individuals for us$200 plus us$100 shipping from > china, with other countries shipping fees varyi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Test-Announce] livemedia-creator in f25 rawhide

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Great job Tom! :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] "Physics with XO" by Guzmán Trinidad now available in English

2016-07-04 Thread Dave Crossland
On 4 July 2016 at 10:34, Tony Anderson wrote: > You might take a look at > "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom; > > The PDF on this page is removed, but I found

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] "Physics with XO" by Guzmán Trinidad now available in English

2016-07-04 Thread Dave Crossland
On 4 July 2016 at 02:16, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Our team would like to share with the community the immediate availability > [1] of > Guzmán Trinidad's "Physics with XO". It is a book that includes 30 >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-03 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 2 July 2016 at 04:35, Yash Agarwal wrote: > > I'll make the complete week report on Sunday (Posted on the blog at https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/minimum-viable-product) I spoke to Yash on IM and he's suffered a hardware failure over the weekend

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-03 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 3, 2016 3:47 PM, "Laura Vargas" <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > > > > 2016-07-03 7:18 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>: >> >> >> On 2 July 2016 at 17:29, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >>> >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Instant palette popdown - a usability improvement

2016-07-03 Thread Dave Crossland
On 3 July 2016 at 10:17, Tony Anderson wrote: > Sounds good. Since I am running 0.106 is this implemented by changing an > file which I could retrofit? > Github allows you to download patch and diff files from a pull request by appending these as file extensions to the PR

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-03 Thread Dave Crossland
On 3 July 2016 at 07:39, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hopefully, our user will be able to make her font the system font. Its a nice idea! https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/issues/49 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 July 2016 at 17:29, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > A. I offer to port the existing website to > https://github.com/sugarlabs/turtleartday.org > I completed a first pass, porting the existing content and then editing it. You can see a preview here: https://suga

Re: [IAEP] A Better Idea...

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 June 2016 at 08:44, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > On 7 June 2016 at 20:15, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > > Looks like we are getting the hang of it! We as a Committe should > schedule a > > weekly meeting to live chat with impo

[IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi With the turtle art day announcements at the board meeting yesterday, I guess that transferring the domain to Conservancy and rebooting the website is due soon. Claudia registered turtleartday.org on http://www.godaddy.com while sugarlabs.org is registered by Conservancy on

Re: [IAEP] July Meeting of the Board

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 July 2016 at 13:33, Tony Anderson wrote: > Perhaps you need to be more careful in your comments. 'I have heard this > before' sounds like distrust. > I do not trust the board's processes to reliably produce the outcomes the board members say they are pursuing. You

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 July 2016 at 08:40, Sam Parkinson wrote: > a control panel for fonts? I think that sounds like a good idea - but, I think, outside the scope of our GSOC project. I think kids don't want to have to deal with dozens of 'boring' system fonts, they want to play with

Re: [IAEP] July Meeting of the Board

2016-07-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 July 2016 at 05:00, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: > I hope this allays Dave Crossland and other member's mistrust of the > Board. Its not that I mistrust the board or think things are being done 'behind members backs.' Its that I see the board's processes as d

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] minutes from 3 June 2016 oversight board meeting

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jun 3, 2016 6:19 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > I am certain to yet again be accused of making an ad hominem attack, but I have to say that I was extremely disappointed in the lack of preparedness for this meeting. Several community members had been working on motions,

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] minutes from 3 June 2016 oversight board meeting

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jun 3, 2016 6:19 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > I am certain to yet again be accused of making an ad hominem attack, but I have to say that I was extremely disappointed in the lack of preparedness for this meeting. Several community members had been working on motions,

Re: [IAEP] Simplified Motion to create and define the position of Sugar Labs Finance Manager

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Congratulations to Caryl and Adam for finally getting the Finance Manager position approved! :) Hooray!! :D On 1 July 2016 at 14:10, Adam Holt wrote: > PS this is very hard work (and I am not yet sure how to determine SL's exact > balance on April 1st 2016) but an early

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 07:06, Tony Anderson wrote: > > We got it. In the future, we will take greater care to cross-post votes by > email (hopefully rare since the meeting itself is public). I've heard that before, and this seems proven sure to fail. But I don't think I can

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 05:45, Tony Anderson wrote: > > You need to distinguish between encouraging members to propose actions to be > taken by the Board and a motion made at a Board meeting by a member of the > Board, seconded and put to a vote of the Board members. I got it :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Donation

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 01:58, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Ütkarsh, will your stipend be paid directly to you Ah, the funds are paid directly to your local bank account in India; its really hard to make a bank wire transfer out of India. Do you have a paypa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Donation

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Ütkarsh, will your stipend be paid directly to you (using a prepaid debit card that is posted to you in the mail)? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] Voting on GPLv3 motion

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 01:32, Tony Anderson wrote: > This is what I have been able to find regarding the GPLv3 motion. AWESOME! Thanks for posting these - I will update the Decision page with links to your emails and these results soon :)

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
sazucar.org domain renewal ($) To: Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com>, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> Cc: systems <syst...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, "OLPC para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores" <olpc-...@lists.laptop.org>, SLOBs <sl...@lists.su

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 30 June 2016 at 17:01, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Come on Dave! I trust the board members. If any of them were opposed > I'm sure we would know about it by now. Let them do the job they were elected > to do. You are welcome to volunteer as the board's secretary, the job

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 30 June 2016 at 18:06, Tony Anderson wrote: > Why can you not accept that some of the votes were not made to the IAEP > mailing list in error. You are opposing addressing this error but without explaining why. Please explain

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 June 2016 at 23:00, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > The reason I am feeling frustration is that Adam, a board member, > asked me to administer the board's record of decisions on the wiki, > and my effort to do so has been fettered: reports of motion outcomes

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
nity Manager (See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-May/052588.html) AGREED MOTION 2016-13 Dave Crossland: To update the Sugar License from GPLv2 to GPLv3 (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-May/052588.html) ___

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 99, Issue 115

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 30 June 2016 at 12:07, Tony Anderson wrote: > I posted no motion on June 4. > ... > Making a comment is not a motion. My apologies; you drafted it and I posted it in thread "Motion: to undertake a fund raising drive." and it was not seconded. > According to standard

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
Great stuff Yash! The blog needs a bit of attention... https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/commit/cbdfaf2a2c5320ac417124ebd050087588cd4e6c is posted 10 days ago, but it wasnt on a friday, which is when we have to check in with walter, so I renamed it to

Re: [IAEP] Simplified Version of A & B for Tomorrow's Meeting

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 30 June 2016 at 10:57, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > P.S. Re clause #2: there may be times when the financial data from the SFC > is not available at a meeting. The first item in the clause allows for > making updates and corrections from the previous meeting's data if it >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
he 'prominent placement' and 'release codename' are not acceptable without > clarification. Cool, when I get there I'll let the community know > According to Dave Crossland, Caryl Bigenho wants the motion on the Financial > Manager to be on the agenda. Has she withdrawn her prop

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
he 'prominent placement' and 'release codename' are not acceptable without > clarification. Cool, when I get there I'll let the community know > According to Dave Crossland, Caryl Bigenho wants the motion on the Financial > Manager to be on the agenda. Has she withdrawn her prop

[IAEP] Motion: To append to existing bylaw for Finance Manager new procedures

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
Motion: To append to existing bylaw for Finance Manager new procedures for requesting, obtaining, and reporting use of Sugar Labs funds. All monetary distributions must be requested from Conservancy by the appointed Finance Manager according to the following guidelines: Expenses: - Expenses

[IAEP] Motion: To replace existing bylaw for Finance Manager

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
Motion: To replace existing bylaw for Finance Manager from: The Finance Manager is an ex officio, non-voting officer taking care of Sugar Labs' Finance. Currently, this position is vacant. To: The Finance Manager shall be appointed by a majority vote of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board (SLOB) and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-06-30 Thread Dave Crossland
On 30 June 2016 at 07:21, Walter Bender wrote: > There are a few other "motions" kicking around that I am trying to get a > handle on before tomorrow. What topics are you referring to? I have not seen any motions posted to IAEP+SLOB lists in the last 7 days; all motions

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

2016-06-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29 June 2016 at 14:22, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Really Sugar Labs doesn't distribute operating system releases, it's up to > distributors. If 0.112 is 100% Python 3, how would OLPC or others make images that support running python2 and python3 activities in the same

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

2016-06-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29 June 2016 at 13:42, Walter Bender wrote: > We will keep the Python 2 libraries around. I think they have to go, both because of the reason Tony mentions - XOs have limited disk space and need as much as they can get for user data - and because removing them forces

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

2016-06-29 Thread Dave Crossland
I wonder how much of python3 beyond https://micropython.org we need... However, I also wonder if rather than porting to python3 we should port everything to JS ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Status of Samson's project

2016-06-28 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I'd like to request a brief update report on the status of Samson's project; its been about 6 weeks since the motion to fund the project was passed, but I haven't heard anything about it as I expected to -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An

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